Storage Network Performance Analysis - Softcover

Simitci, Huseyin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076451685X ISBN 13: 9780764516856

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

• Features vendor-neutral coverage applicable to any storage network
• Includes a special case-study section citing real-world applications and examples
• The first vendor-neutral volume to cover storage network performance tuning and optimization
• Exacting performance monitoring and analysis maximizes the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of existing storage networks
• Meets the needs of network administrators, storage engineers, and IT professionals faced with shrinking budgets and growing data storage demands

About this title

From the Back Cover

Your in-depth guide to analyzing and fine-tuning storage area network performance

Here, for the first time, is your complete resource for optimizing SAN performance and reliability in your organization. Whether you need to evaluate an existing system or design one from the ground up, this book provides a comprehensive, vendor-neutral collection of ideas, practices, guidelines, and frameworks for approaching performance-related issues. Dr. Huseyin Simitci expertly bridges the gap between the theory of performance analysis and the practice of storage system performance engineering, and includes a special case study section filled with real-world examples you can apply to your own SAN, starting today.

You’ll learn how to:

• Develop plans for managing SAN capacity, demand, and workload requirements
• Benchmark and configure SANs to allocate sufficient network resources for adequately managing data
• Analyze and tune bandwidth, speed, throughput, and performance
• Understand analytical modeling techniques and the use of simulation for performance analysis
• Establish guidelines for modeling each storage system layer
• Apply capacity planning techniques for storage systems and networks, taking into account performance analysis and price/performance considerations
• Review and select software for performance data collection and storage performance management
• Fine-tune and optimize the host system and application, storage subsystem, and storage network layers

About the Author

HUSEYIN SIMITCI, PhD, is an engineering researcher at XIOtech Corporation and the author of several research papers devoted to high performance input/output systems and adaptive techniques in parallel file systems. His work contributed to the Scalable I/O Initiative and NSF-funded Grand Challenge programs.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 076451685X
• ISBN 13: 9780764516856
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436